I was very young and lost a toy or something and asked my mom if she'd seen it. She got that "how stupid can you be?" look and said, "Retrace your steps! You ALWAYS have to retrace your steps."
My innocent little warped brain somehow interpreted that as, you have a spool of invisible string that unravels wherever you walk, and by going back the way you came in you roll it back up on the spool. I consciously did that for so long it was well into high school before I realized I was still doing it unconsciously.
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- When I was young, I honestly believed that I would die before I reached high school. Anon
- i thought there was a door in the back of the tv and if you wanted to be on tv you just walk in— fred
- My brother used to tell me if I picked my nose I would become more stupid because bogey were brain cellsAnon
- I used to think that a carpool was one of those bug, long limosine's with a pool all the way in the back.— Annie
- I thought my brain would explode if it was in the sun too long— Heather
- I remember back in sunday school that if you stomped on the ground you would hurt satan. Anon